List of eligibility transfers in athletics

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This is a list of track and field athletes who have moved to compete for another country. Such moves are called transfers of allegiance by the IAAF.

1 To countries in Africa
2 To countries in the Americas
3 To countries in Asia
4 To countries in Europe
5 To countries in Oceania
6 See also
7 External links
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[edit] To countries in Africa

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Year
Fabienne Feraez	France	Benin	2003
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou	France	Cameroon	2005
Fatmata Fofanah	United States	Guinea	2006
Sultan Tucker	United States	Liberia
Lamberte Nyabamikazi	Burkina Faso	Rwanda	2003
Tom Petranoff	United States	South Africa	1991
Sherwin Vries	Namibia	South Africa	2003
Céline Laporte	France	Seychelles	2003
Yamile Aldama	Cuba	Sudan	2004
Todd Matthews-Jouda	United States	Sudan	2003
Dickson Mkami	Kenya	Tanzania	2004

[edit] To countries in the Americas

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Year
Nicolas Pereira Altez	Uruguay	Brazil	2006
Anton Skerritt	Trinidad and Tobago	Canada
Stephen Agar	Dominica	Canada	1998
Karlene Haughton	Jamaica	Canada	1998
Philomena Mensah	Ghana	Canada	1999
Martha Adusei	Ghana	Canada	1999
Melissa Feinstein	United States	Canada	2000
Nicole Haynes	United States	Canada	2000
Charles Allen	Guyana	Canada	2002
Maresa Cadienhead	Jamaica	Canada	2002
Philipp Rist	Switzerland	Canada	2002
Dariusz Slowik	Denmark	Canada	2004
Lieja Tunks	Netherlands	Canada	2006
Kareem Streete-Thompson	United States	Cayman Islands	1999
Félix Sánchez	United States	Dominican Republic
Charles Allen	Canada	Guyana	2000
Dudley Dorival	United States	Haiti	1999
Nadine Faustin	United States	Haiti
Jeff Jackson	United States	United States Virgin Islands	1999
Valma Bass	Saint Kitts and Nevis	United States Virgin Islands	2002
Yvonne Mai-Graham	Germany	Jamaica	1993
Liliana Allen	Cuba	Mexico	1998
Bayano Kamani	United States	Panama
J.Antonio Parilla	United States	Puerto Rico	2000
Allen Simms	United States	Puerto Rico	2005
Kimberli Barrett	Jamaica	Puerto Rico	2006
Stephen Brown	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	1997
Aaron Armstrong	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	2005
Kevon Pierre	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Trinidad and Tobago	2005
Christopher Hercules	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	2006
Abdihakem Abdirahman	Somalia	United States	2000
Mohamed Ibrahim Aden	Somalia	United States	2001
Natasha Alleyne-Gibson	Trinidad and Tobago	United States	2000
Bolota Asmerom	Eritrea	United States	2002
Maggie Chan-Roper	Hong Kong, China	United States	2006
Colleen De Reuck	South Africa	United States	2002
Sandra Farmer-Patrick	Jamaica	United States	1989
Phillimon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	United States	1999
Eddy Hellebuyck	Belgium	United States	2000
Mebrahtom Keflezighi	Eritrea	United States	1998
Khalid Khannouchi	Morocco	United States	2000
David Kimani	Kenya	United States	2002
Bernard Lagat	Kenya	United States	2005
Sydney Maree	South Africa	United States
Adam Montague	Australia	United States	2006
Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	United States	1998
Nadia Prasad	France	United States	2000
Sanya Richards	Jamaica	United States
Yuliana Perez	Cuba	United States	2000
Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	United States	1947
Chen Yueling	China	United States	2000
Jerome Young	Jamaica	United States

[edit] To countries in Asia

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Year
Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Kenya	Bahrain
Ishaq Isa Abedeen	Kenya	Bahrain
Bader Khalil Bader	Ethiopia	Bahrain
Saleh Marzooq Bakheet	Ethiopia	Bahrain
Sameer Kamal Ali	Kenya	Bahrain
Youssef Saad Kamel	Kenya	Bahrain	2003
Abdelkebir Louraibi	Morocco	Bahrain
Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Ethiopia	Bahrain
Mushir Salim Jawher	Kenya	Bahrain	2003
Abel Yagoot Jowher	Kenya	Bahrain	2003
Belal Mansoor Ali	Kenya	Bahrain
Tareq Mubarak Taher	Kenya	Bahrain
Rashid Mohammed	Morocco	Bahrain
Musa Amer Obaid	Kenya	Bahrain
Rashid Ramzi	Morocco	Bahrain
Nadia Ejjafini	Morocco	Bahrain
Ali Faraj Shaheen	Kenya	Bahrain
Abdeen Shaka	Kenya	Bahrain
Moustafa Ahmed Shebto	Uganda	Bahrain	2004
Abdulhak Zakaria	Morocco	Bahrain
Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	Bahrain	2006
Takhir Mamashaev	Belarus	Kazakhstan	2006
Xianhu Du	China	Singapore	2003
Guirong Zhang	China	Singapore	2003
Mohammed Suleiman	Somalia	Qatar
Sultan Khamis Zaman	Burundi	Qatar
Abdullah Ahmad Hassan	Kenya	Qatar
Saif Saeed Shaheen	Kenya	Qatar
James Kwalia	Kenya	Qatar	2004
Nicholas Kemboi	Kenya	Qatar	2005
Daham Najim Bashir	Kenya	Qatar
Jamal Bilal Salem	Kenya	Qatar
Essa Ismail Rasheed	Kenya	Qatar
Majed Saeed Sultan	Kenya	Qatar
Salem Amer Al-Badri	Kenya	Qatar
Ali Thamer Kamel	Kenya	Qatar
Salem Jamal	Kenya	Qatar
Rashid K. Jamal	Ethiopia	Qatar
Mubarak Hassan Shami	Kenya	Qatar
Saeed Besweidan	Yemen	United Arab Emirates	2000
Andrey Abduvaliyev	Tajikistan	Uzbekistan	1997
Erkinjon Isakov	Russia	Uzbekistan	1999

[edit] To countries in Europe

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Year
Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll	Bulgaria	Austria
Mark McKoy	Canada	Austria	1994
Valentina Fedjuschina	Ukraine	Austria	1999
Sergiy Osovych	Ukraine	Austria	2003
Mohammed Mourhit	Morocco	Belgium	1997
Yelena Golesheva-Scheers	Russia	Belgium	1998
Stefanija Statkuviené	Lithuania	Belgium	1998
Olivier Sekanyambo	Congo DR	Belgium	1999
Hassan Mourhit	Morocco	Belgium	2003
Irina Sustelo	Portugal	Belgium	2005
Mira Preradovic	Yugoslavia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2002
Borivoje Stanic	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2003
Mirjana Kalajdzic	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2003
Predrag Momirović	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2004
Tanja Glicic	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006
Maja Jancic	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006
Milan Radulovic	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006
Andrey Makarov	Russia	Belarus	1998
Aleksandr Furso	Russia	Belarus	1999
Takhir Mamashayev	Uzbekistan	Belarus	2001
Sergey Litvinov	Russia	Belarus	2004
András Haklits	Hungary	Croatia	1998
Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	Czech Republic	2004
Josef Karas	Canada	Czech Republic	2005
Robert Kiplagat Andersen	Kenya	Denmark
Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	Denmark
Larisa Netseporuk	Ukraine	Estonia
Eduard Hämäläinen	Belarus	Finland
Wilson Kirwa	Kenya	Finland	1998
Francis Kirwa	Kenya	Finland
Abdelkader Bakhtache	Algeria	France	2006
Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone	France	1999
Abdellah Béhar	Morocco	France
Abdessemad Bouhattach	Morocco	France	2003
Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	France
Ahmed Douhou	Côte d'Ivoire	France	2002
Lueyi Dovy	Gabon	France	2002
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou	Cameroon	France	2002
Hanan Farhoun	Morocco	France	2006
Bouchra Ghezielle	Morocco	France	2005
Hind Dehiba	Morocco	France
Latifa Essarokh	Morocco	France	1996
Fatima Hajjami	Morocco	France
Abderrahim El Haouzy	Morocco	France
Heni Kechi	Tunisia	France	2004
Fatiha Klilech-Fauvel	Morocco	France	2003
El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	France	2001
Irba Lakhal	Morocco	France	2002
Driss Maazouzi	Morocco	France	2000
Rakiya Maraoui-Quetier	Morocco	France	1998
Margaret Maury	Kenya	France	2002
Rodica Daniela Moroianu	Romania	France
Simon Munyutu	Kenya	France	2006
Issa-Aimé Nthépé	Cameroon	France	1999
Térésa Nzola Meso	Angola	France	2003
Sébastien Pincemail	Guadeloupe	France
Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	France	1998
Georges Sainte-Rose	Martinique	France
Ferenc Salbert	Hungary	France
Mohamed Serbouti	Morocco	France
Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	France	2002
Melanie Skotnik	Germany	France	2005
Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	France	2006
Jérôme Romain	Dominica	France	1999
Nouredine Smain	Algeria	France	2005
James Theuri	Kenya	France	2006
Cheikh Tidiane Touré	Senegal	France	2000
Ibrahima Wade	Senegal	France	2000
Larbi Zeroual	Morocco	France	1999
Halina Górecka	Poland	West Germany	1965
Jürgen May	East Germany	West Germany	1967
Andrzej Badeński	Poland	West Germany	1974
Józef Szmidt	Poland	West Germany	1975
Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	West Germany	1984
Wolfgang Schmidt	East Germany	West Germany	1987
Andrei Tivontchik	Belarus	Germany	1994
Alina Astafei	Romania	Germany	1995
Nastja Ryshich	Russia	Germany	1995
Luminita Zaituc	Romania	Germany	1996
Irina Mikitenko	Kazakhstan	Germany	1998
Nkechi Madubuko	Nigeria	Germany
Florence Ekpo-Umoh	Nigeria	Germany	2000
Alexsey Bogdasin	Kazakhstan	Germany	2006
Alexandros Terzian	Argentina	Greece
Mirela Manjani	Albania	Greece	1997
Simona Staicu	Romania	Hungary	2000
Éva Miklós	Romania	Hungary	2003
Attila Farkas	Israel	Hungary	2004
Jeff Cassin	Canada	Republic of Ireland	1998
Dermot Donnelly	United Kingdom	Republic of Ireland	1998
Sean Wade	New Zealand	Republic of Ireland	1999
Adrienne McIvor	Australia	Republic of Ireland	2000
Stephan Hayward	United Kingdom	Republic of Ireland	2001
Alistair Cragg	South Africa	Republic of Ireland	2002
Alkin Westley	Canada	Republic of Ireland	2003
Jolene Elizabeth Byrne	United States	Republic of Ireland	2004
Jerome Krahenbuhl	Switzerland	Republic of Ireland	2004
Samuel Okantey	Ghana	Republic of Ireland	2002
Brendan Reilly	United Kingdom	Republic of Ireland	1999
Sarah Reilly	United Kingdom	Republic of Ireland	2000
Brian Doyle	United Kingdom	Republic of Ireland	2006
Vadim Bavikin	Soviet Union	Israel	1990
Seteng Ayele	Ethiopia	Israel	1991
Wodage Zvadya	Ethiopia	Israel	1991
Konstantin Semyonov	Russia	Israel
Niels Kruller	Netherlands	Israel	1998
Alex Rosen	United States	Israel	1998
Aleksandr Averbukh	Russia	Israel	1999
Irina Lenskiy	Russia	Israel	1999
Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	Russia	Israel	1999
Dan Middleman	United States	Israel	2000
Anna Tkach	Russia	Israel	2003
Niki Palli	Moldova	Israel	2005
Migidio Bourifa	Morocco	Italy
Fatma Maraoui	Morocco	Italy
Mostafa Errebbah	Morocco	Italy	2001
Magdelin Martinez	Cuba	Italy	2001
Fiona May	United Kingdom	Italy	1994
Daniel Abenzoar-Foule	France	Luxembourg	2001
Mirjam Hess	Switzerland	Luxembourg	2006
Stojan Manolev	Bulgaria	Republic of Macedonia	1998
Ilijan Manolev	Bulgaria	Republic of Macedonia	1998
Tanya Blake	United Kingdom	Malta	2002
Troy Douglas	Bermuda	Netherlands	1998
Sharon Jaklofsky	Australia	Netherlands
Tekeye Gebreselassie	Ethiopia	Netherlands	1998
Miguel Janssen	Aruba	Netherlands	1998
Nadezhda Wijenberg	Russia	Netherlands	1999
Caimin Douglas	Netherlands Antilles	Netherlands	2002
Lornah Kiplagat	Kenya	Netherlands	2003
Fernando Ramírez	Dominican Republic	Norway
Aham Okeke	Nigeria	Norway
Katarina Sederholm	Finland	Norway	1998
Yared Shegumo	Ethiopia	Poland	2004
Christophe Fernandes	France	Portugal	2003
Nelson Évora	Cape Verde	Portugal	2002
Naide Gomes	São Tomé and Príncipe	Portugal	2002
Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	Portugal	2002
Sergiu Ursu	Moldova	Romania	2003
Natalya Tsyganova	Ukraine	Russia	1994
Tatyana Shikolenko	Belarus	Russia	1996
Lev Lobodin	Ukraine	Russia	1996
Lyudmila Dzigalova	Ukraine	Russia	1998
Andriy Nemchaninov	Ukraine	Russia	1998
Valentin Kulbatskiy	Ukraine	Russia	1998
Boris Kaveshnikov	Uzbekistan	Russia	2000
Vladimir Malyavin	Turkmenistan	Russia
Tatyana Polnova	Turkey	Russia	2002
Anton Savkin	Uzbekistan	Russia	2000
Vitaliy Sidorov	Ukraine	Russia	2000
Aleksey Kurdenko	Belarus	Russia	2001
Dmitrij Valukevic	Belarus	Slovakia	2005
Britta Bilač	Germany	Slovenia	1992
Uros Zver	Netherlands	Slovenia	1998
Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	Slovenia	2002
Fabio Ruzzier	Italy	Slovenia	2002
Milos Sakic	Yugoslavia	Slovenia	2002
Marija Martinovic-Šestak	Serbia and Montenegro	Slovenia	2006
Yousef El Nasri	Morocco	Spain
Sandra Myers	United States	Spain	1987
Marlene Estévez	Cuba	Spain	1998
Griselda González	Argentina	Spain	1998
Cora Olivero	Argentina	Spain	1998
Niurka Montalvo	Cuba	Spain	1999
Virginia Martínez	Cuba	Spain	1999
Norfalia Carabali	Colombia	Spain	2000
Alice Matejková	Czech Republic	Spain	2000
Roberto Moya	Cuba	Spain	2001
Glory Alozie	Nigeria	Spain	2002
Aliuska López	Cuba	Spain	2003
Yesenia Centeno	Cuba	Spain	2003
Joan Lino Martínez	Cuba	Spain	2004
Olga Koungorova	Russia	Spain	2005
Mohamed Elbendir Kathari	Mauritania	Spain	2006
Jackson Quinonez	Ecuador	Spain	2006
Julie Baumann	Canada	Switzerland	1991
Nelly Sébastien	France	Switzerland	1998
Chantal Dallenbach	France	Switzerland	2000
Alexander Martinez	Cuba	Switzerland	2006
Ludmila Engquist	Russia	Sweden	1996
Alhaji Jeng	Gambia	Sweden	1999
Mustafa Mohamed	Somalia	Sweden
Alfred Shemweta	Tanzania	Sweden	1998
Metin Durmusoglu	Bulgaria	Turkey	1998
Tuna Köstem	Russia	Turkey	1998
Oksana Andrusina-Mert	Russia	Turkey	1998
Sibel Özyurt	Ethiopia	Turkey	1998
Tezeta Dengersa	Ethiopia	Turkey	1998
Metin Sazak	Turkmenistan	Turkey	1998
Nora Ivanova-Güner	Bulgaria	Turkey	1999
Svetla Mitkova-Sinirtas	Bulgaria	Turkey	1999
Elvan Abeylegesse	Ethiopia	Turkey	1999
Anzhela Atroshchenko	Belarus	Turkey	1999
Ebru Kavaklioglu	Russia	Turkey	1999
Mirela Dulgheru-Renda	Romania	Turkey	1999
Aysen Barak	Russia	Turkey	2000
Svetlana Kandemir	Russia	Turkey	2004
Zola Budd	South Africa	United Kingdom	1984
Dagne Birhan	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	1998
Bobby Farren	Republic of Ireland	United Kingdom	1998
Kathy Butler	Canada	United Kingdom	2000
James McIlroy	Republic of Ireland	United Kingdom	2000
Irie Hill	Germany	United Kingdom	2000
Kassa Tadesse	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	2001
Nathalie Harvey	Australia	United Kingdom	2004
Simon Shirley	Australia	United Kingdom
Nicholas Stuart	Canada	United Kingdom	2005
Gerenshi Tamirat	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	2005
Germaine Mason	Jamaica	United Kingdom	2006
Thomas Abyu	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	2006
Taneisha Robinson-Scanlon	Republic of Ireland	United Kingdom	2006

[edit] To countries in Oceania

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Year
Youcef Abdi	Algeria	Australia	2000
Zid Abou Hamed	Syria	Australia
Sisay Bezabeh	Ethiopia	Australia	2000
Viktor Chistiakov	Russia	Australia	1999
Daniela Costian	Romania	Australia	1990
Ambrose Ezenwa	Nigeria	Australia	2006
Tatiana Grigorieva	Russia	Australia	1998
Hans Lotz	Germany	Australia
Dmitri Markov	Belarus	Australia	1999
Mizan Mehari	Ethiopia	Australia	1999
Peter O'Donoghue	New Zealand	Australia
Silvana Trampuz	Italy	Australia
Gemechu Woyecha	Qatar	Australia
Gus Nketia	Ghana	New Zealand
Denis Petushinskiy	Russia	New Zealand	1998
Biljana Petrovich	Yugoslavia	New Zealand	1998